ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has released an updated handbook on energy storage, an internationally known resource for utilities, regulators and others interested in electricity storage and power generation. The book was created in collaboration with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) and was funded by […]
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Radiation detection to go
August 14, 2013 – 5:30 am
Mobile radiation detectors deployed at international ports ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team completed acceptance testing on an enormous mobile scanner that makes smuggling radiological materials more difficult, the eighth such unit that Sandia has deployed worldwide. The Mobile Radiation Detection and Identification System (MRDIS) enables scanning of containers that are in transit from […]
SWiFT commissioned to study wind farm optimization
July 9, 2013 – 10:40 am
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University commissioned the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) facility today at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The SWiFT is the first public facility of its kind to use multiple wind turbines to measure how wind turbines interact with one another […]
Improving the reliability and resiliency of Hoboken’s electric grid in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
July 3, 2013 – 5:19 am
Sandia deploys Energy Surety Design Methodology to assist on civilian grid ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia will help East Coast communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy boost the resiliency of their electric grids, so they can be better prepared to deal with natural disasters in the future. Sandia’s Energy Surety Design Methodology (ESDM) is a quantitative, risk-based […]
Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility event
June 25, 2013 – 3:00 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University will host the commissioning of the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology (SWiFT) Facility on Tuesday, July 9, at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The event will feature speakers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Program, Vestas Wind […]
Sandia-mentored high school team competes in national cyber defense competition
March 15, 2013 – 12:15 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Students with La Cueva High School’s Marine Corps Junior ROTC program are competing in the finals of CyberPatriot V, a national high school cyber defense competition in National Harbor, Md., that ends Saturday. The team, mentored for more than two years by Sandia National Laboratories cyberengineers, emerged as the top team in […]
Public-private partnership awarded $120 million to develop energy storage
November 30, 2012 – 1:10 pm
Joint Center for Energy Storage Research sets aggressive technology development goals A team including Sandia National Laboratories will receive $120 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a new research hub to develop batteries and other energy storage technologies. The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an Argonne […]
Sandia to co-host international workshop on photovoltaics integration
October 29, 2012 – 10:15 am
Sandia National Laboratories, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and European Distributed Energies Research Laboratories (DERlab) have organized a workshop on utility operating experience with high-penetration levels of solar photovoltaics (PV). The workshop, “Utility Experience with High Penetration PV,” is scheduled Monday, Dec. 3, in Berlin. The workshop will take place just before the Fifth […]
Sandia engineer wins Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for role on Mars team
October 4, 2012 – 3:11 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Ron Lipinski received a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for his role as team lead in the Mars Science Laboratory Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermal Generator team (MSL MMRTG team). The award is bestowed upon a group or team of Department of Energy employees (federal and contractor) who together accomplished significant […]
Sandia gains national recognition for sustainable energy management
September 27, 2012 – 3:41 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has received a 2012 Department of Energy Sustainability Award for energy management of its computer servers. The awards recognize DOE national laboratories and sites nationwide for outstanding accomplishments in sustainability, specifically in managing pollution, waste, energy, water and vehicle fleets. Sandia’s award in the comprehensive energy management category was […]
Sandia probability maps help sniff out food contamination
September 27, 2012 – 8:47 am
Uncovering the sources of fresh food contamination could become faster and easier thanks to analysis done at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC). The study, in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, demonstrates how developing a probability map of the food supply network using stochastic network representation might shorten the time […]
Offshore use of vertical-axis wind turbines gets closer look
July 30, 2012 – 4:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ wind energy researchers are re-evaluating vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) to help solve some of the problems of generating energy from offshore breezes. Though VAWTs have been around since the earliest days of wind energy research at Sandia and elsewhere, VAWT architecture could transform offshore wind technology. The economics […]
Stan Atcitty and Dan Sinars honored by President Obama for early career accomplishments
July 25, 2012 – 4:06 pm
Sandia researchers Stan Atcitty and Dan Sinars have been named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This is the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding scientists and engineers who are early in their independent research careers. Stan and Dan are among […]
Sen. Bingaman to speak at 2012 Wind Turbine Blade Workshop
May 29, 2012 – 6:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman will speak about the future of wind energy at the opening session of the nation’s only conference devoted to wind turbine blades sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia’s 2012 Wind Turbine Blade Workshop will be Wednesday through Friday, May 30-June 1, at the Embassy Suites Albuquerque. The conference […]
Legacy Waste Program nearing completion
May 2, 2012 – 5:16 pm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The last scheduled shipments of remote-handled (RH) transuranic (TRU) waste left Sandia on Wednesday, headed directly for permanent disposal in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. These shipments end Sandia’s final stage in DOE’s Legacy TRU Waste Program, which works to safely remove such waste […]